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Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts"
Mon, 15/11/2021 - 2:00pm — Carol“It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts.”
—cabinet secretary, Sir Burke Trend, 1963
The magazine Private Eye provoked panic in Whitehall when it identified C, the letter used to denote the head of MI6, hitherto secret papers released at the public record office yesterday [Wed 16 Feb 2000 01.44 GMT] reveal.
The
magazine broke existing media conventions by naming Sir Dick White as
C, standing for Chief, in a column by Claud Cockburn, in August 1963. In
a small paragraph headed "Note to foreign agents" he named Sir Dick as
the "head of what you so romantically term the British Secret Service".
Quote - You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting
Mon, 18/03/2019 - 6:42pm — Carol
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how
to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse
than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the
next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others,
when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You
don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of
your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of
doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that
restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Quote - "The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more"’
Mon, 19/06/2023 - 12:57pm — CarolThe pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more
Chinese
Quote - "important enough to risk somebody else's"’
Fri, 16/06/2023 - 9:56am — Carol...few things are so important you would risk your life for them, but all sorts of things are important enough to risk somebody else’s life.
Chapter 12
The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3)
By Richard Osman
Quote - "The world is made up of our differences"’
Fri, 16/06/2023 - 9:36am — CarolI always thought people like us needed people like Raphaëlle to cope with certain situations but it is way more complex than that.
The world is made up of our differences. It needs people like us, who only see the coloured stains and not the landscape, and it needs people like Raphaëlle, who only see the landscape even if it sometimes leads them to lose their judgments. It is only when we are together that we can see the entirety of the picture. One cannot work without the other.
"Astrid Et Raphaelle" S02 E01
Quote - "Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all"’
Thu, 30/03/2023 - 10:59am — Carol"Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all’"
Freya North
Quote - "impulse towards good involves choice and is complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideo’"
Sat, 10/12/2022 - 12:13pm — Carol"I mean to say that the impulse towards good involves choice and is
complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideously simple and easy"
Maeve Brennan; ‘Talk of the Town’ for New Yorker
Quote - "We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’"
Sat, 17/09/2022 - 1:33pm — Carol“We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’ Rather than walking in your shoes, I need to learn how to listen to the story you tell about what it’s like in your shoes and believe you even when it doesn’t match my experiences..”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, 2021
Quote - "True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough"
Fri, 08/04/2022 - 5:21am — Carol“True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.”
—? The Golden House 2017
Matters because involves standards, rules & integrity in public office.. once those values erode - can ever expect to get back?
Fri, 07/05/2021 - 1:45pm — CarolIt matters because it involves standards, rules and integrity in public office. And once those values start to erode - can the public ever expect to get them back?
